Voigt & Voigt - Speicher 82

Voigt & Voigt - Speicher 82
Wolfgang and Reinhard Voigt, two of Kompakt's founding fathers, have maintained a refreshingly simple musical philosophy down the years. "Every weekend," says Reinhard, "the good old straight bass drum still unites the people on the dance floor." Their latest contributions to Kompakt's Speicher series are almost puritanical in their make-up—straightforward ingredients sympathetically employed. In "Superpitch," the Voigts take a rising Shepard tone and deploy it like a cluster bomb. It's like an aural hotrod hitting its top speed before the parachute kicks in, slowing it down to a mere murmur.

"Supertrip" dials back on the beats, its wheezing synths sounding like a cat's fallen asleep across the keys. It eventually welcomes in Verdi-style violins, and like the A-side, its directness and lack of pretension are a big part of its appeal.